An overview of all Disney-related events that occurred in the year 1927.
Character debuts
- September 5 - Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
- September 19 - Fanny Cottontail
- October 31 - Homer the Cat
- November 28 - Ortensia (as "Sadie")
Theatrical releases
Shorts
- January 10 - Alice the Golf Bug
- January 24 - Alice Foils the Pirates
- February 10 - Alice at the Carnival
- February 21 - Alice at the Rodeo
- March 7 - Alice the Collegiate
- April 4 - Alice's Auto Race
- April 18 - Alice's Circus Daze
- May 2 - Alice's Knaughty Knight
- May 16 - Alice's Three Bad Eggs
- May 30 - Alice's Picnic
- June 13 - Alice's Channel Swim
- June 27 - Alice in the Klondike
- July 11 - Alice's Medicine Show
- July 25 - Alice the Whaler
- August 8 - Alice the Beach Nut
- August 22 - Alice in the Big League is the last of the Alice Comedies that was released.
- September 5 - Trolley Troubles
- September 19 - Oh Teacher
- October 3 - The Mechanical Cow
- October 17 - Great Guns
- October 31 - All Wet
- November 14 - The Ocean Hop
- November 28 - The Banker's Daughter
- December 11 - Empty Socks
- December 26 - Rickety Gin
Events
- March 4 - Winkler Pictures head Charles Mintz signs a contract with Universal Pictures vice president R. H. Cochrane; Winkler will produce 26 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons for Universal throughout the 1927-28 season.[1]
People
Births
- January 17 - Eartha Kitt (singer, actress, dancer, activist, author, and songwriter)
- February 15 - Harvey Korman (actor and comedian)
- February 25 - Dickie Jones (actor, voice actor, and singer)
- March 15 - Jack Lindquist (actor and former president of Disneyland)
- March 31 - William Daniels (actor)
- April 2 - Ken Sansom (actor and voice actor)
- May 5 - Pat Carroll (actress, voice actress, and singer)
- May 11 - Bernard Fox (actor and voice actor)
- June 7 - Dee Dee Wood (dancer, choreographer, and actress)
- June 8 - Jerry Stiller (actor, voice actor, and comedian)
- September 24 - Arthur Malet (actor)
- September 27 - Romano Scarpa (comic book artist and writer)
- October 1 - Tom Bosley (actor)
- October 18 - George C. Scott (actor, voice actor, director, and producer)
- November 16
- Giovan Battista Carpi (comic book artist)
- Norman Gimbel (lyricist and songwriter)
- November 30 - Robert Guillaume (actor, director, producer, singer, voice artist, and comedian)
Artists joined
References
1927